There was a programme shown on William Klein a photographer born in New York who now lives in Paris and who has an exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery www.tate.org.uk. This exhibition showing his film work between 1958 and 1999 and it is on from 16th November 2012 until 20th January 2012.
As well as the films at the exhibition there are also some large contact sheets which he has 'painted on' to show which shots he went on to use, I guess this is part of the work flow pattern I am learning about at the moment.
Although the TV programme talked about the films part of it was also about William Klein and his life as a photographer, although born in New York he studied art in Paris after the war due to a scholarship for ex soldiers, He has had a studio in montpellier for 50 years lot of his abstract work was printed very large and this brought him to the attention of Vogue magazine, and his association with them continued until he photographed an anti war rally at the time of the Vietnam war, which lost him his contract. Know as a street and fashion photographer he was not really too upset to loose the contract as he preferred to work alone and when doing fashion work he needed to use assistants. He also shot the first documentary made on Mohammad Ali.
Although he is in his 80's and not as mobile as he once was William Klein still carrys his camera where ever he goes and still uses film over digital, he still contributes to Harpers Bazaar magazine amongst others and refuses to be pigeonholed preferring to use his passion and determination to do things his own way.
Overall I found it an interesting programme if a bit dis jointed in places.
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